the 50 best books in the world... Probably

Repeat after me, "There is no Canon"! Sick of people telling you what you need to read? I prefer fantasy fiction, Warhammer series, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, etc. I also enjoy the works of Poe and H.G.Wells and any decent dystopian novel goes down a treat.

But, for those of us that want to put ourselves through the furnace of quality literature that will hopefully pass on good lessons, here are my top 50 picks:

1. Letters and papers from prison.
2. The Iliad
3. Meditations
4. The Bhagavad Gita
5. The Koran
6. Gilgamesh
7. Beowulf
8. Oresteia
9. Bacchae
10. Phaedo
11. The Divine comedy
12. Othello
13. Prometheus bound
14. The Gulag Archipelago
15. Julius Caesar
16. 1984
17. The Aeneid
18. All quiet on the western front
19. The Analects
20. The Prince
21. The Republic
22. On liberty
23. Diary of a madman
24. Faust
25. Walden
26. Decline and fall of the Roman empire
27. The history of freedom
28. On moral duties
29. The story of my experiments with truth
30. The Odyssey
31. Monkey
32. The tale of Genji
33. The trial
34. 1001 nights
35. Dracula
36. Don Quixote
37. The Golem
38. The story of the stone
39. Wuthering heights
40. The picture of Dorian Gray
41. Madame Bovary
42. Notes from the underground
43. Huckleberry Finn
44. The wealth of Nations
45. Frankenstein
46. The Metamorphosis
47. Animal farm
48. Fahrenheit 451
49. The lord of the flies
50. Moby Dick

So there we have a fine starting point for anyone that wants to up their reading game. What do you think about the selection? Feel free to leave your comments, what to add/remove,

Cheers,

Den.